Udemy is an open online course marketplace where instructors publish their own courses and learners buy access to the ones they want. It serves individual learners looking to pick up a specific skill, working instructors who want to teach and earn from their expertise, and companies that subscribe on behalf of their employees through Udemy Business.
Instructors build courses from video lectures, screen recordings, articles, quizzes and other files using Udemy's course-creation tools, and learners buy individual courses outright rather than following one fixed curriculum. The catalog spans practical skills such as programming, design, business and marketing alongside personal-development topics, and Udemy reports nearly 300 million course enrollments to date.
Individual courses are typically listed between about twenty and two hundred dollars but are discounted for much of the year, often down to the ten-to-fifteen-dollar range during sales. Instructors keep a smaller share of the price on sales made through Udemy's own marketplace and a much larger share on sales driven by their own coupons or referral links. Udemy Business, aimed at companies, is sold as an annual per-seat subscription with pricing arranged directly with Udemy's sales team.
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